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What is the average life span for storage media?

For those of us who like to archive their images onto storage media, there has been some updated guidelines as far as the estimated life spans. Fortunately, media costs has been on the downswing over the past few years. Here's the latest.......

CD/DVD+/-R    2-15 years
CD/DVD+/-RW    25-30 years
HARD DRIVES    3-6 years
FLASH DRIVES    10 years

Posted by David Lake at 04:12 PM in Media and Storage |

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